Kent Wall to head Davidson County Election Commission

New pick is business veteran

4:28 AM,
Oct. 29, 2013

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

As it tries to put a turbulent period behind it, the Republican-led Davidson County Election Commission has turned to an outsider from the business world for leadership.

Along party lines, the election commission voted 3-2 on Monday to hire Kent Wall as its new elections administrator, selecting him over a candidate with nearly three decades of experience within the office.

Wall is a poll worker, retired consultant and former president of the Johnston & Murphy shoe stores, a subsidiary of Nashville-based Genesco Inc. Capturing all three GOP votes, Wall, a Republican himself, beat out the ...